For example, a free divorce chat is the best possible way to interactively come across beautiful, like-minded women who can connect with you.Chat rooms can provide single men and single women with the opportunity to find and make new friends, fall in love and create a long and happy relationship.Online chat includes web-based applications that allow communication – often directly addressed, but anonymous between users in a multi-user environment.Web conferencing is a more specific online service, that is often sold as a service, hosted on a web server controlled by the vendor.Online chat in a less stringent definition may be primarily any direct text-based or video-based (webcams), one-on-one chat or one-to-many group chat (formally also known as synchronous conferencing), using tools such as instant messengers, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), talkers and possibly MUDs.The expression online chat comes from the word chat which means "informal conversation".

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Online chat may refer to any kind of communication over the Internet that offers a real-time transmission of text messages from sender to receiver.

Chat messages are generally short in order to enable other participants to respond quickly.

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